Hakol game consoles
5(Posting here, since to my knowledge, SideDeal doesn’t have its own forum.)
Many of us will already know this, but I feel the need to point these things out as borderline scam devices. They are the kind of thing you’d see being sold by a mall kiosk or a Chinese dropshipper like Wish or Temu. The descriptions are I’m sure lifted from whatever other website is selling them, but they’re littered with text describing them as containing actual ‘iconic classic games’ that will ‘bring you back to your childhood’…the reality is they’re packed with hundreds or thousands of absolutely lowest effort possible games, interspersed with dubiously legal emulations of official titles. I was surprised to see you guys offering such products for sale, especially given the purposely misleading text in the descriptions. All three consoles are direct copies of existing hardware (NES, GBA SP, and PS2 controllers), as well.
It might be a good idea to place a large, easily read disclaimer near the top of the product descriptions, explaining that they’re not what the original manufacturer claims they are.
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No opinion on the gaming devices but you are wrong about one thing.
https://sidedeal.com/forum
@yakkoTDI Huh. It only shows the comments from the daily Sidedeal specials posted over here, though - not the other products.
@yakkoTDI I looked and looked and looked again while I was logged in on SD and never found a forum link. Can’t blame me for not trying!
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI Yeah, kinda looks like it wouldn’t have been much help anyway. LOL
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI @PooltoyWolf
Actually not much different from the forums (fora?) on Meh proper, in that the bot posts a daily forum topic relating to whatever the daily item is, and the rest of the topics are generally user-created. Lack of topics reflects lack of user interest in discussing the sales there, i presume.
@PooltoyWolf Why don’t you put your concerns into a post there? (Use the Add Topic button.)
@Kyeh @phendrick @yakkoTDI Between how difficult it was to find the SD forums, the fact that I scrolled for quite some time and saw nothing other than SideDeal Daily automated posts, and the two websites sharing common ownership, I figure posting here was more impactful.
@Kyeh @phendrick @PooltoyWolf
Oh yes I can!! Even if I am wrong.
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf @yakkoTDI True. I saw It here; wouldn’t have seen It there.
@Kyeh @phendrick @PooltoyWolf I got the link from here too.
@Kyeh @phendrick @yakkoTDI But I haven’t been the goat for years now!
There is a 90 day warranty shown on Sidedeal, so if the games are truly crap (as I’m inclined to believe) then money can be reclaimed.
“You get what you pay for, sometimes even less.”
@blaineg My experience has been that the value received falls shorter as the price exceeds a certain point.